Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-27

ught to win Il affection, at any rate
our respect. SO come OF, We four
hundred thousand E~piscopalIans H.
his country, and We eight hundred
thousand Presby:erians. and We two
md Il half million Baptists, and We
uearly three and three quarter million
Slcthodists--come IN, shoulder To
shoulder we will march for the
world $ conquest; for all nations are
to be saved, and Gcd demands that
;ou and l help do it. Forward, the
whole line.
Moreover, we may also overthrow
the feeling OF eve sectariari9m by
Joining other denominations in Chris.
tian work. l like when the sprinCtime
comes and the anniversary occasions
begin and all denominations come upon
the same platform. That ovcrthrows
sectarianism. In the Young Mems
Christian Association, in the Bible So
ciety, in the Tract Society, II the For
eign Missionary Society, shoulder to
shoulder all denominations.
AN ILLUSTRATION.
Perhaps might more forcibly illus
rate this truth by calling your atten-
ton to an incident which took place
fourteen or fifteen years ago. One
Monday morning at about 2 O'Clock,
while her 900 passengers were sound
asleep in their berths dreaming of
home, the steamer Atlantic crashed
into Mars Head. Five hundred souls
tn ten minutes landed in eternity! Oh,
what a scene! Agonized men and wo-
men running up and down the gang
ways, and clutching for the
rigging, and the plunge of the
helpless steamer, and the clapping
of the hands of the merciless sea over
the drowning and the dead, threw two
continents into terror. But see this
brave quartermaster pushing out with
the life line until he gets TO the rock;
and see these fishermen gathering up
the shipwrecked, and taking them into
the cabins, and wrapping them in the
ilannels snug and warm; and see that
minister of the gospel, with three other
men, getting into Il life-boat, and push
lag out for the wreck; pulling away
across the surf, and pulling away until
they saved one more man, and then
getting back with him to the shore
Can those men ever forget that. nightP
And can they ever forget their COM
partnership in peril, companionship in
struggle, companionship in awful ca
catastrophe and ~rescueP Never! Never!
In whatever part Of the earth they
meet, they will be friends when they
mention the story Of that awful night
when the Atlantic struck Mars Head.
THE WORLD IN SHIPWRECK.
Well, my friends, our world has
gone into Il worse shipwrcck. Sin
drove it on the rocks. The old ship
mas lurchcd and tossed in the tcmpests
of six thousand Years. Out with the
lifeline! | do not care what ocnomi-
nation carries it! Out with the life
boat. | do not care what denomina-
ton rows it. Side by side, in the
memory of common hardships, and
common trials, and common prayers,
and common tears, let us be brothers
forever. We must lie. We must be.
"One army OF the living God;
To whose command We bow;
Part Of the host have crossed the food,
And part are crossing now
And | expect 10 see the day when
all denominations Of Christians shall
join hands around the cross OF Christ
aud receive the creed: II believe in
God the Father Almighty. Maker of
Heaven and Earth, and in Jesus Christ
and in the Communion Of Saints, and
in the life everlasting" May God in
spire US all with the largest-bearted
Christian charity!